“Among the most important images of the last three decades are those whose makers are most fully preoccupied by whatever cannot be put in a picture.”

– James Elkins

At a time in which we are redefining our relationship with our environment, and major transformations in thinking take place, we reach the limits of our imagination. How can we understand and imagine a worldview that surpasses today? The Gaze of Science explores alternative imaginations. 

Beyond the horizon of our imagination always rises the dawn of a new horizon.

New Realism – The Gaze of Science

A transdisciplinary exhibition project 2016-2017
Science Park Amsterdam

Artists 

Lotte Geeven, 

Doina Kraal, 

Gwenneth Boelens, 

Joost Rekveld, 

Tarja Szaraniec, 

Daniela de Paulis, 

Domnitch & Gelfand, 

Angelo Vermeulen and Joenoes Natar.

Scientific Images
Through new technological developments, science has access to a world that is invisible to the senses but that underlies our worldview. The visual language of this complex perspective is in full development, creating a new visual logic. From astrophysics to the investigation of elementary particles, a wide range of disciplines depend on image innovation. The lens-based optical perspective that since Giotto has defined our view on the world is no longer sufficient. Beyond optical laws new solutions must be formulated for a post-lens perspective, which relates to the Giottoesque lens perspective as Wikipedia relates to Diderot’s encyclopaedia. It is a dynamic perspective based on an interaction between observer and observed; an image that is constantly in the making, and, in essence, a potential realism. A visual language with a semiotics unprecedented in our visual traditions.